Word: scheme
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...complaint of the public secondary school is that the college foists upon it an outrageous scheme of courses, and a system of cramming for "units", which must be hoarded away for two or three years, and will be rewarded on some happy July morning. Viewed as the most likely leaders of a generation hence the college man or woman is important; regarded as only an entity in the multitude of America, whose masses enjoy secondary education in greater proportion than in any other country on the globe, the college man shrinks to numerical insignificance. The college curriculum is an Aeneas...
Naturally observers sought for a "real reason" behind Laborite MacDonald's righteous wrath. They found it in an editorial in the Laborite Daily Herald which observed: "The "greater portion of the readers of the evening papers are members of the working class, and if the Rothermere scheme is successful, the new papers will add to the copious stream of misrepresentation of the Labor movement which issues daily from the capitalist newspapers...
...nature of the Harvard curriculum has made such official sanction unnecessary to make this kind of study an institution. One may regret that the credit system, the greatest flaw in the American educational scheme, should taint the orthodox amateurism of the vagabonding student, but it may also be interpreted as a cheerful token of growth...
...remote hill towns. An alternative proposal was that all Roman Catholic churches in Italy should be given status as Papal State territory, thus dotting the land with innumerable but innocuously minute territorial islands. Although Il Duce's assent was never indicated in the case of the latter scheme, he was reputedly withheld from agreeing to the former only by the most persistent objections of the Fascist Grand Council, the one body in Italy which has sufficient political might to impose a modicum of restraint upon Big Brother Benito...
Besides being used by the various companies as a guide and for reference, it is understood that the report of the survey will be used in a number of Business Schools for teaching purposes. It is part of the Harvard Business School Research Bureau's general scheme of research to cooperate with industries and to supply them with valuable information for their operating departments...